XXXU PROCEEDINGS 



Ordinary Meeting, 15th j^ovember, 1892, at St. Albans. 



John Hopkinson, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., etc., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Mr. E. A. L. Batters, LL.B.., B.A., F.L.S., The Laurels, 

 Wormley ; Mr. H. Blackburn, Nascot Grange, Watford ; Mrs. 

 A. E. Bolton, London Road, St. Albans; Mr. C. E. Dillon, Alma 

 Eoad, St. Albans; Mr. Arthur E. Gillman, Springfield, Wood- 

 ridings, Pinner ; Mr. George Bickersteth Hudson, M.P., Watton, 

 Hertford; Mr. Arthur Lewis, Sparrowswick, St. Albans; Mr. W. 

 N. Puddicombe, M.R..C.S., London Road, St. Albans; Mr. AVilliam 

 Topley, r.RS., F.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E., Geological Survey of 

 England, 28, jermyn Street, London, S.W., and Hurstboume, 

 Elgin Road, Croydon; Miss Katherine Tumbull, Rose Hill, Abbot's 

 Langley; Mr. Frederick Wallen, 96, Gower Street, London, W.C, 

 and Bricket Wood, St. Albans; and Miss Jane Wiles, George 

 Street, St. Albans, were proposed for membership of the Society. 



The following lecture was delivered : — 



" Woodland Wanderers, or the Mycetozoa." By James Saunders. 



An extempore lecture, the substance of which, with additions, 

 was afterwards written as " Xotes on the Mycetozoa, with a List 

 of Species from Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire." (^Transactions, 

 Yol. VII, p. 137). 



The lecture was illustrated by photographic slides, representing 

 various species of Mycetozoa in different stages of growth, shown 

 by the oxy-hydrogen lantern kindly lent by Mr. S. Monckton 

 White ; and a slide with living plasmodium, which had thrown 

 out pseudopodia during the preceding twenty-four hours, was 

 also shown on the screen by the lantern-microscope. This is 

 believed to be the first time that living plasmodium has thus 

 been shown to a scientific society, and the President remarked 

 that the meeting would therefore probably be a historical one. 



Mr. Saunders also exhibited coloured drawings of the Mycetozoa 

 executed by the Misses Lister. 



Ordinary Meeting, 18th November, 1892, at Watford. 



John Hopkinson, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., etc., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Mr. E. A. L. Batters, LL.B., B.A., F.L.S., Mr. H. Blackburn, 

 Mrs. A. E. Bolton, Mr. C. E. Dillon, Mr. A. R. Gillman, Mr. G. 

 B. Hudson, M.P., Mr. Arthur Lewis, Mr. W. N. Puddicombe, 

 M.R.C.S., Mr. William Topley, F.R.S., F.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E., 

 Miss Katherine Tumbull, Mr. Frederick Wallen, and Miss Jane 

 Wiles, were elected Members of the Society. 



The Right Honourable George Devereux de Vere Capell, seventh 

 Earl of Essex, Cassiobury, Watford ; Mr. James Fisk, High Street, 

 St. Albans; and Mr. E. T. Wilks, F.R.G.S., Monmouth House, 

 High Street, Watford, were proposed for membership. 



